Device for severing the hides and skins from the killed animals.



W PFEFFERKORN. DEVICE FOR SEVERING THE HiDES AND SKINS FROM THE KILLEDANIMALS.

APPLICAT ION ,FILED APR. 5' 1915.

W L C i z Patented July 25, 1916;

UNITED STATES PATENT orrrou.

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DEVICE r03 SEVERING THE nrnns em) SKINS FROM THE KILLED ANIMALS.

' Specification of Letters Patent.-

' Application filed April 5, 1915. Serial No. 19,34s.-

T all whom it may concern: T p

Be 1t known that I, VVILLY PFEFFERKORN,

electrical engineer, citizen of the Swiss Confederation, residing atZug, Switzerland have invented certain new and useful Im provement's inDevices for Severing the Hides and Skins from the Killed Animals,

of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to a device for severing thehides andskins from the killed animals.

The object of the present invention is to provide a device which may behandled by any person and which will not injure the hide or skin'e'venwhen handled by careless and inexperienced persons.

A furtherobject of the invention is to provide a device which is simplein con-.

struction and whichallows 'an' expeditious work.

I attain described hereinafter. v

5 fixed toa spindle 6. The spindle ,6 is rotatably mounted. in a bearing7 of frame 1 and is provided with a bevel gear 9. The

bevel gear 9 which iskeyed'to the shaft 6 meshes with a bevel gear -10fixed to shaft 1].. The shaft 11 is rotatably mounted in a bore 12-ofthe handle 2 and is fastened to the one end of a flexible shaft 13 theother end of which is connected with the shaft of -a-motor not shown inthe '(lrawing. The

gears 9, 10 are covered by a casing which consistsof two parts 14,lfi'screwed onto the shield 3. The disk 5 is provided with three wings16, the free ends of which are I these and other objects by means. I ofthe device illustrated in the drawings and drawings: Figure protrudedover parts of the outer edges of the shields 3, 4. The free'ends of thewings 16 areeach'provided with incisions 9 Patented-July 2.5, i916.

19, 20 formed and arranged in such a man- ,ner .that' tliree-edges 21,22, 23 of semi-, circular shape are formed' The edges 21,- 22, 23 arenot sharpthey are rounded-off. The edge 22 of each wing projectsfarthest y from the edges'18. The shields 3-, 4 are close to the disk 5and are made thin along I the edges 18;

- The device is e tate follows: The deviceis brought below the hide ofthe killed animal and th'e'disk 5is set in motion. The edges 21, 22, :23sever the hide. The device works in any position and may he handled orskin as the wings 'wor of wedges. The hide may be severed quite cleanand uninjured even by careless and inexperienced persons. i

6,0- without any risk of makin cuts in the hide j 1n the manner f What Iclaim and W181), to secureby Ilet ters Patent is: e

In'a device'of the character deseribed'the combination of'a frame havingtwo shields,

a disk rotatably secured between both shields, wings on said diskprojecting overthe outer edge of saidshields,agroup of semi-circulargrounded beating edges on the outer ends of each of said wings, thecentral edge of said group of each groupof said beating edges protrudingfarther over. the edges of said shields than that of the other, two, acasing, and a spindle horizontally 1 disposed in said frame carryin saiddisk,

substantially as described and or the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signa.-- ture in the presence of twowitnesses.

IL YI'PFEFFERKGRNI lVitnesses: Furrz .Qm,

ARLON T. ADAMS.

